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Limbaugh pushes again at ‘Donald Trump is the embodiment of empowering Rush, Matt Drudge, Fox Information

Smerconish, you idiot. You are so fuckin out of touch with reality. The people that voted for Trump did so because he promised jobs, he laid out a real plan to get those jobs. Why do you idiots at the fake news have to make this about a basket of deplorables waiting for a white supremist to get in the presidential race that was created for and by the alt Left? The people who need jobs have watched their plants close up and move south to Mexico or over seas forever. They gave Obama a chance TWICE to bring on… Read more »

my favorite book: "rush limbaugh is a big fat idiot and other observations"….Rush to Letterman: "Have you noticed how Hillary looks like a christmas car ornament?" Letterman to Rush: "well, you can say that because you are the most beautiful human specimen on earth"…..

Limbaugh is wrong on almost everything, but he does have a point here. What the hell is "Donald Trump is the embodiment of empowering Rush Limbaugh etc.etc." supposed to mean? We know what this guy is trying to say, but that was very badly phrased: in fact, almost meaningless.

And there is a large part of the problem, the average trump supporter is unable or unwilling to separate fact from fiction. Why do you think so many of them follow Televangelist and conspiracy theorists like over on infowars and the loud mouthPurveyor of bs like rush and crapbart

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